{"id":14462,"date":"2026-01-10T17:13:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T17:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/?post_type=book&#038;p=14462"},"modified":"2026-01-24T09:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T09:31:07","slug":"ego-and-love-02","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.kabbalah.info\/en\/ego-and-love-02\/","title":{"rendered":"Ego and Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/the-human-ego\/\"><strong>THE HUMAN EGO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I look at others, my ego evokes envy and hate and desire to control. I don\u2019t wish others well, or at least, not better than me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.kabbalah.info\/time-to-break-free\/\"><strong>TIME TO BREAK FREE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our nature, through which we sense the world and ourselves alive and operating in it, is a program that depicts a certain reality for us. 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